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Nutrition and Recipes

“One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three quarters keeps your doctor alive.”
—Egyptian proverb

Plant foods are power foods.

In order to get optimal results from your fitness program, consider adopting a diet that provides you with nutritional excellence. Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and legumes are nutritional power houses that are also low in calories, contain no cholesterol and almost no saturated fat.

I advocate eating as close to a whole foods plant based diet as you are willing to go. Reducing or better yet eliminating animal products and processed food from your diet will create more room for more nutrient dense foods and decreasing what is harmful to our health such as excess calories, saturated fat, cholesterol, excess sugar and salt.

Would like to try eating a plant based diet? The PCRM web site provided below offers a 21 day vegan challenge with a menu and recipes.

Below are some favorite web sites and blogs

 

Meatless Monday

Meatless Monday logoMeatless Monday is a non-profit initiative associated with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The goal of the program: by eating vegetarian one day each week, we can reduce meat consumption by 15%, improving both our personal health and the health of the planet.  Visit the Meatless Monday website to learn more about.